2017 World Mission Month

There are over 12 million forgotten farming families in Vietnam, living in the coastal mountain regions, who desperately require access to clean drinking water and nutritious food as they struggle to survive on less than $2 per day. Together, we can provide them with essential community health, education and spiritual growth resources to ensure they can have a future filled with hope.

Despite decades of struggling with limited religious freedoms, Sister Mary Hoaian and the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Nha Trang, Vietnam work tirelessly to provide critical community resources such as clean drinking water for the forgotten farming families located in the coastal mountain regions.

Thanks to the help of Catholic Mission, the Sisters are seeking to install a new water filtration system at the rear of their kindergarten. Sister Mary and the children who are orphaned and disadvantaged who attend the daily lunch program, have all been praying to receive this new service, as they know that having clean drinking water will greatly improve their daily health and general wellbeing. “If we could just get a new water filtration system, this will allow us to meet the foundational need of this isolated community. It will also enable us to dramatically impact the health outcomes of the children and the families here within our care,” says Sister Mary.

Vietnam is now home to almost 95 million people, with over 12 million families still lacking access to basic health services such as clean drinking water and medical care. Sadly, throughout the country, poorer children under the age of five are twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday, when compared with children in Australia; and a third of all children born in the coastal mountain regions needlessly suffer from stunted growth due to the impacts of malnutrition, polluted water and a lack of accessible health services.

Please help provide these isolated families with a new clean filtered water system, and much needed education and medical services to ensure they can have a future filled with hope.

$75enables one Sister to travel to an isolated village to provide essential medicines and spiritual support to help the forgotten farming families of Vietnam.Click here to donate now.

Your own contribution towards building a local chapel where the isolated villagers of Vietnam can come and receive spiritual development, care and guidance. The total cost for building a chapel in Vietnam is $28,871.Click here to donate now.

TAX-DEDUCTIBLE

$450 covers the cost of nutritious food and clean drinking water for one month for 20 orphans and disadvantaged children in the isolated village of Xuan Son.Click here to donate now

Your own contribution toward the installation of a new water filtration system, switch will ensure impoverished families in Vietnam can access clean drinking water. The total cost for this new water system is$14, 628.Click here to donate now.